“what do you do when you’re that girl who wants to do it all?”
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many people quit the fashion program after their first year. she didn’t, she didn’t, neither did she. i also didn’t. i stuck through it and didn’t fully appreciate the experience until the end. i’m so glad for it. for the lessons learned, the skills developed and talent honed. after school though, i didn’t immediately go out and look for a job in my field. partly to do with not really wanting to work in the industry and partly to do with not wanting to apply for and seek out a job. i wanted them to come to me. maybe that was silly. i remember being so proud of the work i put into all of my work and especially my final project that was a culmination of my best pieces. i ended up doing freelance graphic design, which turned out to be my superlative in school. in the end, i knew i wanted to work for myself. i have my dad’s entrepreneurial spirit running through my blood after all. i just wasn’t sure which arena i would want to land.

during my last two years in school i was working with a vintage clothing distributor and started up a reworked tee shirt line called salvage. i would buy used, run of the mill tees in the right colours, cut them up and resew them back toghether in various styles. i would print messages on them too when i was feeling adventurous! i had a booth at the clothing show at the ex twice and had an intimate showing of my line. the husband was actually my emcee! ha. that’s a trip down memory lane. i would round up my friend and her sister to model the clothes and i took photos for promotional material, created a website and designed and printed a lookbook. i was having a lot of fun with it. i liked creating the whole package. the branding, the styles, the overall look. i took it pretty seriously until i didn’t anymore. i just felt like i wasn’t able to scale the business the way i wanted to and the quality was not where i wanted it to be. were not up to par. it was just off, you know? so while i had fun and made some money doing it, i decided to throw in the towel, erm, tee shirt, and and make my next move.

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this guy also wants to do it all.

“I’m giving all that I have in this life. I’m opening up my notebook and I’m saying everything in there out loud.”
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do it all is my journey. of wanting to do it all. all that has happened and all that will insha’allah. read along to get to know a little more about me.

“you can always want to do everything, just do something in the meantime.”